Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views on controversial bioethical issues
By: edited, selected, and with introductions by Carol Levine
Contributors: Levine, Carol
Edition: 3rd ed
Publisher: Dushkin Pub. Group
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics
Other titles: Clashing views on controversial bioethical issues; Bioethical issues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. Choices in reproduction. Is abortion immoral? / John T. Noonan, Jr., Beverly Wildung Harrison; value: Is it wrong to create test-tube babies? / Hans O. Tiefel, Clifford Grobstein; value: Should women be allowed to bear babies for a fee? / John A. Robertson, Herbert F. Krimmel; value: pt. 2. Decisions about death. Is it ethical to withhold the truth from dying patients? / Bernard C. Meyer, Sissela Bok; value: Is "killing" the same as "letting die"? / James Rachels, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress; value: Must fluids and nutrition always be given to dying patients? / William E. May et al. , Joanne Lynn and James E. Childress; value: Should parents be allowed to decide to withhold treatment from newborns with birth defects? / Earl E. Shelp, C. Everett Koop; value: pt. 3. The doctor-patient relationship. Are there limits to confidentiality? / Ian E. Thompson, Michael H. Kottow; value: Is involuntary commitment wrong? / Thomas S. Szasz, Paul Chodoff; value: Should doctors cut costs at the bedside? / Percy Brazil, Allen R. Dyer; value: pt. 4. Human and animal experimentation. Can deception in research be justified? / Stanley Milgram, Diana Buamrind; value: Is it ethical to implant animal hearts in humans? / Arthur L. Caplan, George J. Annas; value: Should research with aborted fetal tissue be banned? / James Tunstead Burtchaell , Benjamin Freedman; value: Should animal experimentation be permitted? / Office of Technology Assessment, Tom Regan; value: pt. 5. Public policy and bioethics. Should organ procurement be based on voluntarism? / Blair L. Sadler and Alfred M. Sadler, Jr., Charles J. Dougherty; value: Should newborns without brains be used as organ doners? / Michael R. Harrison, John D. Arras and Shlomo Shinnar; value: Should there be a market in body parts? / Lori B. Andrews, Thomas H. Murray; value: Should insurance companies be allowed to screen for antibodies to the AIDS virus? / American Council of Life Insurance, Mark Scherzer; value: Should health care for the elderly be limited? / Daniel Callahan, Amitai Etzioni; value: Is genetic engineering a threat to future generations? / Hans Jonas, President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Research